Holt Cuisine

 Russian Rocks are a cookie my mom made every Christmas when I was a kid. She and a friend would get together and make them in quantity. Mom had a moveable island in her kitchen. It was always out for Russian Rock day as they created an assembly line for the cookies. These cookies have very little dough and are mostly nuts and fruit. They are like a tiny fruitcake if you could only include the ingredients that actually taste good.  They are also very durable. Mom only made them once each year. They stayed good for the whole season. We have included them in Christmas mailings for years.  Since those days the recipe remains mostly unchanged. We now use Craisins instead of raisins and we sometimes make them with artificial sweetener, but not usually. We tried freshly grinding the spices. That was good, but it left spice chunks. It is next to impossible to properly grind cloves in anything you might reasonably have at home So now we just buy fresh pre-ground spices for baking...